The Official English Wheel Thread

Where will you get it poured? And what material?

Hope you take pictures of that!

 

Grade 40 cast iron. I’m in England so it will be somewhere in the midlands

 

Finished

 

wow - excellent

 

Final pattern picture!

 

Those will sell! In kit form or DIY. Do you plan to make a run of a specific amount of castings?

 

I don’t know if machining a 2000lb casting is a diy proposition

 

Gentleman standing next to the pattern is 6’4

 

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Wow! Well done Mr Lamb.

 

Ive finally reached the front of the queue at the foundry

 

Oh Boy!

 

Cores in , furnace is a glowing!

 

Awesome stuff! We purchased a company located in Bolton back in the 90s that built a rotary vane compressor called Rotovane. I visited the foundry that made the cast iron parts. I know it’s a long shot, but I wonder if you’re using the same foundry?

 

Highly unlikely, not many foundries survived the manufacturing depression of 2000-2002 then the Covid lockdowns bs

 

Cast, still too hot to touch!

 

Incredible accomplishment! Do you know if they “aged” castings like that back in the day?

 

I want one of them! gimmie, gimmie!

 

Well that aabout settles it!
Who's got the coolest E-wheel on the HAMB?

Clive Lamb, that's who!

An English Wheel From England, no less.

 

I will be curious to see what type of machinery will be used to finalize all the machined surfaces. Do you have access to a big boring mill?

 

My business is actually building and rebuilding machine tools and have one of the biggest capacities in my county in the uk . I have angle plates that are much heavier than the wheel casting!

Thanks for the encouraging comments you men . It genuinely helps me see my daft vanity projects through when I’m 80 years late to the party

 

Just for fun we weighed the casting, the scale is in kilograms so the finished machine will be over 2100lb

 

Your machine makes me think of this photo at PanelCrafters:

 

Clive,
I assumed England, but is that the actual country you are in?

If I was younger and had the money, I'd ask you to have another cast for me. This is one of the best projects I've seen.
SO COOL!

 

yes definitely in England!

 

Oh Wow, I just stumbled on these pages after seing the Lambco wheel ad on Ebay.
what a amazing job Mr. Lambo did!
also looked at the Edwards wheel rebuilt.
I have one of those and it was also locked up when I got it.
I could have posted some advice but ...to late, you already mastered it.
I'll try to post pic of my Edwards.
.......
Ah! that was easy, here it is :
I made a cradle underneath to be able to wheel (Ha!) it around .
It has Justin Baker lower anvils as the original ones where missing when I got it.

 

thanks (lamb not lambo!)
I put some ads on eBay just so people might see them , obviously bespoke commissioned wheels aren’t a eBay product! I don’t need someone winning a wheel for less than the fuel to collect the castings from the foundry

 

Sorry Clive! I wrote your name incorrectly!
Actually, that price on Ebay made me curious,
I knew straight away it could not be done for that amount.
So I went searching for it and found these pages!
Good PR , and I can spend hours here......
Thanks!

 

just for fun, a few pics from the renovating of my Edwards.

 

One of my 18” machines made it to Poland